One presenter spoke about villages where up to 80 percent of marriages involve bride kidnapping. Sometimes the kidnappings were symbolic, but half of the marriages did not have the consent of the woman. In 2007, 270 cases of bride kidnapping were reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but only 85 of those were prosecuted.

On a separate occasion, Kyrgyz Deputy Ombudsman Mamat Momunov said that domestic violence is rising. In 2007, his office received 200 complaints from women, and in just the first eight months of 2008, they received over 300. Most of the complainants live in rural areas and 80 percent were domestic violence cases.

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